499 
British-East-African Birds. 
These noisy birds always seem to gather together in 
numbers of 20 or 30 in a bush. A wounded bird will throw 
itself on its back and fight with beak and claws like a 
Hawk. 
24. Campicola livingstonei Tristr. ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 
p. 163. 
a, A ad.; b, ad.; c, $ ad. Machako’s, Aug. 1898. 
25. Pratincola axillaris Shelley; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 
p. 161. 
a, <$ ad.; b, ? ad.; c, ad. N’gong, Dec. 1898 and Jan. 
1899. 
26. Melittophagus sharpei Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. x. 
p. xxviii (1899). 
Melittophagus cyanostictus Cab.; Hinde, t. c. p. 583. 
a, b, $ ad. Atlii river, Sept. 10, 1899. 
27. Corythornis CYANOSTiGMA (Rupp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 163 (1892). 
a, b, $ $ ad. Athi river, Aug. 5, 1899. 
28. Caprimulgus fr^enatus Salvad.; Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xvi. p. 533 (1892). 
No. 165, (J. Athi river, Sept. 16, 1899. 
Common in river-beds, ravines, and all places where there 
is thick cover. This bird rarely perches or sleeps except 
on the ground. 
[Compared with a specimen from Machako’s in the 
Jackson collection and identified by Mr. E. Hartert. In the 
“key” to the genus Caprimulgus (t. c. p. 525) C. fraenatus 
and C. rufigena are placed among the species which have no 
rufous collar; but this is a mistake, which is repeated in the 
same author’s ‘Tierreich’ (p. 39).—R. B. S.] 
29. Turacus hartlaubi Fisch. & Reichen.; Hinde, t. c. 
p. 581. 
a, b. Nairobi forest, June 1898. 
30. Melierax niger (Bonn, et Vieill.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 
1892, p. 535. 
a, $ ad. Machako’s, July 18, 1898. 
